SalesCast Connector allows you to automate data feed generation and file upload into your Salescast account from your Magento back office. This package includes Data Feed Manager and Orders Export Tool in a special edition.
Manage all your data feeds with ease thanks to Salescast Connector
Salescast Connector completely automates the uploading of the data to the Lokad service platform. It works in conjunction with both the Data Feed Manager and the Orders Export Tool components.
Be totally compliant with Lokad
Official module for SalesCast by Lokad
Customize sample templates provided with the extension
Automatically use the default values for lead time and service level
Use the Lokad attribute set added with the extension
All product types: simple, configurable, grouped, bundle, custom types...
Multi-stores, multi-currencies, multi-VAT-rates data feeds
Highly customize your data feeds
Add any Magento 2 attribute to your data feed templates
Create your own attributes, attribute set, and category filters
Use OR/AND statements in your filters
Add PHP code to your template
Enjoy the precious help provided by the extension
Templates — Start with the sample templates already included with the extension.
Preview — Check your data feeds and use the syntactic helper to avoid misprints.
Library — While configuring your data feed, find any attribute you're looking for in the library.
Automatically and regularly send your updated feed to any order management platform
Cron tasks — Schedule tasks to periodically generate your data feed.
FTP upload — Upload your data feeds into your Salescast account.
Email — Send your profiles by email to one or more recipients.
Content
Salescast and Magento 2
Salescast Connector - Product Overview
The web application Salescast optimizes your inventory levels by using data on your business activity, current stock levels, and open orders. It is therefore important to send a daily.TSV file with this data to the Lokad service platform.
Salescast Connector completely automates the uploading of the data to the Lokad service platform. It works in conjunction with both the Data Feed Manager and the Orders Export Tool components.
Salescast Connector also allows the Leadtime and Servicelevel variables to be defined and adjusted for an individual product or for the entire product catalog.
Discover Salescast
The web app Salescast delivers two key data for your inventory optimization:
to know when to order
to know how much to order
The quantities suggested by Salescast rely on advanced statistics as delivered by the Lokad forecasting technology. Salescast saves you money with fewer stocks and fewer stock-outs; but also Salescast saves you time when reordering to your suppliers.
Open a Salescast account
Salescast comes with an Express subscription free of any charge up to 10,000 products. The Salescast Connector lets you take advantage of this offer from your Magento 2 back office.
Following the purchase, you will receive a confirmation email with your log-in details and a password to access your Wyomind account and download Salescast Connector.
Download the zip file from your Wyomind account.
Unzip the file.
Copy all the files in the folder.
Paste all the files into the Magento 2 web site root directory.
Log-out of the Magento 2 admin account.
Re-log-in to the Magento 2 admin account and empty the cache.
Follow the instructions on the screen to activate your license.
The installation is now complete.
Once Salescast Connector is installed, two new tabs will appear in the Magento 2 admin menu under:
Products › Data Feed Manager
Sales › Orders Export Tool
Configure Salescast Connector
Salescast Connector allows two key variables, Leadtime and Servicelevel, to be defined and adjusted to maximize the efficiency of Salescast. These variables can be defined and adjusted for an individual product or for the entire product catalog.
For more information about the two variables, please have a look at the Lokad reference documents:
To configure all products using a default setting, from Magento 2 go to: Stores › Settings › Configuration › Wyomind › Salescast Connector › Settings
Individual product settings
To configure an individual product with unique settings, from Magento 2 go to: Products › Inventory › Catalog › Manage products › Edit › Salescast connector
FTP upload setting
Before uploading any data files to Salescast, the FTP settings needs to be configured for product data. For this:
Go to: Products › Data Feed Manager › Edit Lokad_items.tsv › Ftp upload
Enter your account details: login and password
Change the destination directory if necessary.
Do the same for Orders Export Tool:
Go to: Sales › Orders Export Tool › Edit Lokad_orders.tsv › Ftp upload
Enter your account details: login and password
Change the destination directory if necessary.
Plan a scheduled task to update Salescast data
The two export components, Data Feed Manager and Orders Export Tool, are both configured to export data once a day by default (Lokad_Orders.tsv at 11:30PM and Lokad_Items at 3:00 AM).
The times for export can be simply changed by selecting the appropriate export profile in the Scheduled Tasks tab of Data Feed Manager and Orders Export Tool extensions.
For more information about cron tasks, please have a look at the following reference articles:
Magento Open Source vs Magento Commerce vs Magento Commerce Cloud
Magento offers three variations of its product.
As their names have changed over the past few years, here is a recap:
Magento Open Source: previously Magento Community Edition (CE), is a free and non-hosted e-commerce platform.
Magento Commerce: previously Magento Enterprise (EE), is the paid version of Magento and offers support services.
Magento Commerce Cloud: is the paid version of Magento and offers support and hosting services.
License and domains
License validity
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single installation
If you're using more than one installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each instance.
if you're running several domains on a same installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your Support & Upgrade period does. By purchasing a module, you’ll be granted a 12-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to pay for a new one (see FAQ: Extend your Support period)
Domains pre-registration
You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the module ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
Go to: mY account › Licenses & DOwnloads
Click on the Settings icon next to the module you want your domain to pre-register on.
Click on the link at the bottom of the page saying: Do you want to pre-register your domain in order to be ready to go live?
Finally, enter your domain name and click on pre-register now .
Testing environments
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one installation only. However, it is possible to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
If you would like to add your testing environments to your license. In that case, it is possible to extend your license to an unlimited number of domains for free. For mywebsite-staging.com or mywebsite-dev.com
If you want to transfer your license to another live domain. In that case, the Support & Upgrade period for your license must still be active.
To be able to use Salescast Connector on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Install Salescast Connector on your environment. (see FAQ: Modules installation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Activate the license. (see FAQ: Licenses activation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Also, if you are managing a large amount of domains, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Modules versioning and download
Extensions download
In order to download Salescast Connector, log into your Wyomind account:
Go to: my account › Licenses & downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Salescast Connector.
A new window opens.
Click on the download icon.
Only the latest extension version released within your Support & Upgrade period is available. In order to get the very latest extension version make sure your Support & Upgrade plan is up to date.
Modules upgrade
When purchasing a module from wyomind.com, you benefit from 12 months of upgrade. Within this period you can at any time download the latest version of the module directly from your account.
To upgrade Salescast Connector, follow the steps below:
Go to: my account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Salescast Connector.
Click on the download icon.
Install the new version of Salescast Connector in your Magento admin or your WooCommerce back-office.
Modules Installation/Uninstallation
Extensions manual installation
You can install Salescast Connector manually.
Download Salescast Connector (zip file) on: mY ACCOUNT › Licenses & Downloads Refer to the FAQ: Extensions download
Once Salescast Connector is downloaded, open the folder and unzip it.
Copy the content of the unzipped folder and paste all files and directories in your Magento 2 root directory.
In your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento setup:upgrade
If you are using a production mode, execute also:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
bin/magento setup:di:compile
Extensions uninstallation
To uninstall Salescast Connector, start with disabling the extension running the following command:
Then, you have 2 ways to uninstall the extension depending on how the extension has been previously installed:
Manual installation
Run the salescastconnector-uninstall.sh file (you can find it in the extension zip folder) from your Magento root directory:
sh salescastconnector-uninstall.sh
Installation via Composer
Run the below command line:
composer remove wyomind/salescastconnector
Once the uninstallation is over, refresh your cache and enable the compiler back again (if you use it).
Modules activation
Extensions activation from the back-office of Magento
Once Salescast Connector is installed, you have to activate the license. For previous versions, you can activate the license from your back-office:
Go to your Magento admin panel. A message pops up at the top of the page.
If the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
1. The Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are well enabled. 2. The HTML output of the Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are not disabled in: storesconfigurationadvanced advanced 3. The encryption key well exists in app/etc/env.php:
Copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
You can find your activation key in 2 different places: - In the confirmation email that you received after purchasing Salescast Connector. - In your Wyomind account: My account › Licenses & downloads Select Salescast Connector and click on .
A new page opens where you'll find your activation key (see below).
In your Magento admin go to: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
Paste the activation key in the Activation Key field and choose between the automatic (yes) or the manual (no) activation method: - By choosing Yes, the connection to Wyomind license server will be automatic. - By choosing No, you will have to log on to Wyomind license server yourself.
Click on Save config .
A message appears at the top of your admin panel. Click on that link: Activate it now!
Copy and paste the license code in theLicense code field from your admin or simply click on Activate now!
Finally, refresh your cache, log out and log in back straight after, to complete the installation.
Add another domain to your license
To activate the license on another domain (test, staging...):
Once the extension is installed on the new domain, copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
After having saved the configuration, a notification appears. Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour. Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email. If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Salescast Connector on both environments at the same time.
Note that the order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter. You can start with your staging/dev/local environment or with your live domain, the process will be the same.
Also, if you have loads of staging domains, or if you are an agency managing load of domains for your customers, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Extensions activation from the CLI
Once Salescast Connector is installed, you have to activate the license.
For this, you can use the below command line (change the Activation key with the corresponding value):
We use both modules included in salescast connector everyday, whilst we no longer use Lokad we have repurposed both modules to help us with our daily tasks, never been an issue and allowed use to customise our feed in house even with complex business logic, data feed module is the most flexable feed module available and even allows inline php functions. Great module bundle!
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brett
United Kingdom · User for 8 years
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Used on Magento 1
We have used this module on magento 1 and it proved useful, as we have upgraded to magneto 2 we have purchased again. Never really had a problem and hope the same this time.
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Cermis
Sweden · User for 12 years
★★★★★
Very helpful tool
I use Datafeed manager with Salescast connector and Order Export tool to export data into Lokad salescast system over two years. This solution works for me other 2 years and really help to cast our sales for short term period and keep our stocks up to date. Thanks for great module
Changelog
1.0.0
First release for Magento 2
Feature request
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